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Plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza
In 1967, aware of what the proclaimed Aryan Nazis had done in Germany, the Israeli polymath and philosopher, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, warned of the danger of Judea-nazism emerging in the Zionist state. As Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy points out today (July 20) history is clearly repeating itself, along with an horrific irony: before the slaughter of […]
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The Guernica of Israel’s war of extermination
July 13, 2025
Pablo Picasso painted his famous picture in response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937. We now have a modern filmed version from Gaza. This report by Gideon Levy, in Haaretz, July 13, 2025 First, you hear the screams, the kind that makes your blood run cold. The camera […]
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Hebron hell: ‘voluntary’ ethnic cleansing
July 11, 2025
By Gideon Levy & photographer Alex Levac (Haaretz, 11/07/2025) The market square is empty, as the iconic song about another Old City – the one in Jerusalem – goes. Hebron’s main marketplace has been almost completely deserted for years. Anyone who wants to understand why, need only gaze upward: Hanging from the metal grilles Palestinians […]
Posted in: Sound Israeli journalism
The massive financial cost of warfare
July 3, 2025
This is a lightly edited Haaretz report on the Iranian response to the US backed attack on Iran. Such details, important as they are, have not had much publicity because the Israeli military continues to censor and block information. 500 Missiles, 200 Interceptors, $1.5 Billion: Numbers Behind Iran’s Attacks on Israel The IDF reported 36 […]
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Barbara Bell (1939-2025)
July 1, 2025
A socialist, educator, researcher and activist died in Cape Town in her sleep in the early hours of Saturday, June 28 after a a debilitating illness. Co-founder, with husband Terry, of the primary division of the ANC school, Somafco, in Tanzania for the children of exiles, she qualified as a preschool teacher in Johannesburg and […]
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Settler violence cloaked by Gaza & Iran
June 27, 2025
Taking advantage of the war in Iran, settlers in the South Hebron Hills have stepped up their violent assaults on Palestinian communities in the area. A decision by an Israeli planning committee in the West Bank could lead to the destruction of all the remaining hamletsBy Gideon Levy, pictures by Alex Levac (Haaretz, 27/06/2025) In […]
Posted in: Sound Israeli journalism
Murdering the future
June 22, 2025
Murder is a very serious crime. And it is very clearly defined: to kill another person “with malice aforethought”. In other words, to plan to kill someone for whatever reason and then to carry out the intention is a serious violation. The same charge applies to those who pay or order someone else to carry […]
Posted in: Commentary
Planetary sacrifice for a Messiah?
June 20, 2025
Concerned about the religious fanaticism that apparently fuels Israeli expansionism and United States support for it, the Gaza carnage and now the assault on Iran, I started writing. But then an Item landed from the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz. Apart from a few minor points of difference, it says, basically what I wanted to say. So […]
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Terry Bell Writes 
July 20, 2025
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